F# Melodic Minor — C6 Pedal Steel
Every note of F# Melodic Minor as a bar position on the C6 neck's ten strings, pedals up — the root ringed each time it recurs, and a button that plays the run.
F# Melodic Minor is 7 notes to the octave (common family), drawn here across the C6 neck's ten strings with every F# marked, so home stays visible from anywhere in the pattern.
Minor at the bottom, major at the top — the b3 keeps it minor while the natural 6 and 7 lift the upper half into a smooth climb home. Bittersweet rather than dark, with a polished, modern-jazz sheen.
Heard in: Jazz lines over minor and altered chords, film scoring, and classical melodies rising to the tonic — Bach, Mozart, and bebop alike.
On a pedal steel a scale is mostly played with the bar moving, one or two notes at a time, and the pedals supply the notes a bar position lacks. These maps show the neck with the pedals up, so what they light is the ground every pedal move starts from.
Work it in one position before you work it up the neck. A bar that lands a hair short of the marker sounds flat on every string it covers, and the ear hears that long before the run is fast.